Everyone knows that cycling is an excellent aerobic sport, but its benefits are less clear when cyclists are riding and exposed to polluted air in dense urban environments. But what if a cognitive technology could help by decreasing the amount of pollution they breathe in? A project led by Professors...

The international team comes from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and IBM Research in Zurich and they jointly developed a technique which can improve the sensitivity of protein detection in...

Summary: IBM Research publishes in arXiv close to ideal scaling with new distributed deep learning software which achieved record communication overhead and 95% scaling efficiency on the Caffe deep learning framework...

The latest research from IBM Research’s AI Foundations team creates a state-of-the-art system for automatically answering questions by making use of knowledge bases, and will be presented as an oral...

The ability to predict the properties of materials before they are fabricated, or to explore their behavior under conditions which are impractical to replicate under laboratory conditions (eg extreme temperatures...

This spring I was invited to a global meeting about cancer research – how tumor data should be gathered, integrated and interpreted. It brought together specialists from medicine, biology, chemistry,...

Demonstrating the continual innovation that takes place around its major sporting events, IBM Research and IBM iX are teaming up to provide “Cognitive Highlights” to The Championships, Wimbledon, the oldest...

Yesterday his intuition was recognized by Hyperion Research with the HPC Vendor Innovation Award. The award showcases return on investment (ROI) and success stories involving high performance computing (HPC) to...

The impact of disruptive digital technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain goes well beyond finance and payments, touching all aspects of the real economy. This is an underappreciated fact, and...

Understanding the brain’s dynamics is of central importance to neuroscience. Our ability to observe, model, and infer from neuroscientific data the principles and mechanisms of brain dynamics determines our ability...

The Flame Challenge is the Alan Alda Center's annual contest to challenge scientists to explain complex science topics to 11-year-olds. The Flame Challenge Worldwide Assembly was this year live-streamed from...

IBM researchers developed a method using deep learning and visual analytics technology for the early detection of Diabetic Retinopathy, one of the leading causes of blindness. Deep learning algorithms combined...

Here’s what she said about flying qubits, wafer-scale photonic test systems, and more Silicon photonics uses light, versus electricity, to send signals from a microchip. IBM engineers use these pulses...

IBM was also recently granted patents focused on improving autonomous vehicle safety through machine learning. The cognitive technologies could enable automakers to provide consumers with a new sense of confidence...

Published today in the peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, IBM scientists have shot an electron through an III-V semiconductor nanowire integrated on silicon for the first time. This achievement will form...

Our ability to monitor and collect data about IT (information technology) services, ranging from cloud and hosted-IT delivery models to maintenance services, has grown to unprecedented levels over the past...

The Soft Matter Science department in IBM Research’s Healthcare and Life Sciences recently discovered that polymer-coated nanomaterials trigger a dramatic reaction in the body’s cells -- one that we previously...

While still in their infancy, as quantum computers edge closer to surpassing classical computers, a new discipline is emerging called quantum machine learning. It's goal is to apply quantum information...

IBM scientists have been recognized with the 2017 Compound Semiconductor Industry Innovation Award. The recognition is a culmination of five years of research by the Zurich-based team which is focused...

Since last year, scientists, students, and the quantum computing curious have been able to explore the world’s first and only cloud-enabled quantum computing platform, the IBM Quantum Experience. They’re running...

After 37 years, Ton Engbersen has officially retired from IBM Research – Zurich. His career has spanned such diverse areas as image processing, chip design, communications technology, server technology, legacy...

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. The disease progresses very slowly and destroys vision gradually, starting with the side vision and narrowing over time. It often remains...

Field experiment at a busy shopping district in Tokyo Tokyo’s underground consists of miles of pedestrian walkways, extensive shopping arcades and a subway network. It stretches for hundreds of kilometers...

Appearing today in Nature Nanotechnology, IBM scientists in collaboration with chemists at the University of Warwick have synthesized and characterized a tricky molecule called triangulene, also known as Clar’s hydrocarbon,...

With the world’s largest population, China generates an unprecedented amount of medical data. It’s an ideal harvest ground for the development and application of cognitive solutions that extract insights from...

The international team of scientists in Zurich has made tremendous progress in its first year, particularly for building Hyperledger Fabric, which is part of the Linux Foundation's open-source blockchain development....

“Drone-based microbial analysis system” was just one of 8,088 total patents IBM received in 2016. The company’s patent output covers a diverse range of inventions in artificial intelligence and cognitive...

Our team brings together a variety of disciplines including silicon photonics, spectroscopy, materials science and physical analytics to create new sensing technologies that can pinpoint and monitor the quality of...

This is the fourth of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...

This is the third of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...

This is the second of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...

This is the first of a four-part series about IBM featured papers at IEDM 2016. The annual International Electron Devices Meeting is “the world's pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs...

Dynamic artificial bat ears enrich speech signals Bats use biosonar to navigate their night flights through jungles and forests. Their system of ultrasonic pulses can pinpoint sound more precisely than...

60 students from Kenya's Presidential Digital Talent Program (PDTP) visit IBM Research - Africa for an introduction to IBM Research, hands-on demonstrations with IBM Bluemix, Watson and new cognitive healthcare...

Nearly a year ago IBM Research announced that it will expand its Green Horizons initiative globally to enable city governments, utility companies and factories to better understand and improve their...

Wits and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) are building up an ambitious ICT cluster development program in the so-called Tshimologong Precinct of the city and are actively recruiting...

Scientists at IBM Research – Almaden have demonstrated that the TrueNorth brain-inspired computer chip, with its 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses, can efficiently implement inference with deep networks...

Tweaking wastewater treatment operations allowed us to dramatically lower costs and reduce waste A city with 2 million people will likely have a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) that handles hundreds...

Special Issue of the IBM Journal of Research and Development Cybersecurity is among the most important and pressing challenges of our times. The inadequacy of perimeter-based security controls in protecting...

For the first time, IBM scientists have created randomly spiking neurons using phase-change materials that store data and compute like the human brain. The demonstration is a significant step forward...

Imagine this scenario: Annual physical examinations are supplemented by an affordable home diagnostic chip, allowing you to regularly monitor your baseline health with just a simple urine sample. Though outwardly...

Dr. Christine Corbett Moran travels the world in search of challenging problems to solve. The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology earned...

Yasunori Yamada, a computational neuroscientist at IBM Research – Tokyo, has long been fascinated by human intelligence, consciousness and robots. “We humans can learn autonomously, behave flexibly, and exploit and...

IBM’s new Blockchain Innovation Center in Singapore is an IBM Research initiative in partnership with the Economic Development Board of Singapore. We will work closely with several Singapore entities including...